The weight ladder has settled into recognisable bands. Around 80 g and above is a conventional gaming shell, 60 to 70 g is what most players now think of as light, 45 to 60 g is the competitive mainstream, and a small group of specialist wireless designs sit at or just under 40 g. Every step down that ladder is bought with a material change, a deleted feature or a smaller cell, not with a discount.

Weight comes out in a handful of ways: thinner shell walls, magnesium alloy in place of moulded plastic, a smaller battery, a flexible unsheathed cable and no internal lighting. Cutouts across the top were the standard route until solid shells caught up. Evetech delivers to the major centres in one to three business days and regional addresses in three to five, or you can collect from the Centurion warehouse.